
Wayne Li
Professor of the Practice of Design and Engineering
School of Industrial Design
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Wayne Li
Professor of the Practice of Design and Engineering
School of Industrial Design
Wayne K. Li is the James L. Oliver Professor, holding a joint position between the Colleges of Design and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He leads joint teaching initiatives and advances interdisciplinary collaboration between mechanical engineering and industrial design through classes and the Innovation and Design Collaborative (IDC) and Design Bloc.
Li's research areas include ethnographic research, multidisciplinary online education, and human-machine interaction in transportation design. His career spans industry and academia. Li has led innovation and market expansion for Pottery Barn seasonal home products, taught in Stanford University's design program, led interface development at Volkswagen of America's Electronics Research Laboratory, and developed corporate brand and vehicle differentiation strategies at Ford Motor Company. He has also worked as a product designer and mechanical engineer at IDEO Product Development.
Li holds a Master of Science in Engineering from Stanford University, and undergraduate degrees in Fine Arts in Design and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has additional continuing education in Industrial/Transportation Design from the College for Creative Studies. Li has been in his current role at Georgia Tech since Fall 2010, while also operating as a principal design consultant through Wayne Li Design since the same time.